30 Days of Women - Day Seven

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Day One: Favorite lead female character
Day Two: Favorite supporting female character
Day Three: A female character you hated but grew to love
Day Four: Favorite animated female character
Day Five: Favorite female character on a male-driven show
Day Six: Favorite female-driven show

Day Seven: A female character that needs more screen time

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Two in one day! Two in one question! Anyway. Madame Vastra and Jenny. For all of you going “who?” They’re in Doctor Who - but not much. Madam Vastra is a Silurian detective in Victorian England and Jenny appears to be her maid…until you see her next wielding a samurai sword. They are also lovers and according to youtube comments, Moffat thought that a spinoff with them would be like Tipping the Velvet with a lizard. I don’t think I’ve ever wanted to know more about two characters from so little provided before, and I’m not alone in this, based on the amount of fanfic around. (And yes, I know this is two, but you can’t really separate them!) They appear as fully fledged characters - we as the audience only catching a glimpse into their lives when they turn up to help the Doctor at the Battle for Demon’s Run. Moffat has a tendency to bring people back, so HOPEFULLY, we will see them again.

Speaking of the Moff - he is exceptionally good at creating characters that are or seem to be one-offs. I could just as easily have put Sally Sparrow or Madame DuPompadour in this spot - both are amazing characters in their own right. For that matter, Irene Adler deserves an honourable mention as well. Good lord, that woman knows how to make an impression. One non-Moff character that I’d lovelovelove to see again in DW is the other Jenny, the Doctor’s Daughter (it is thanks to Moffat that she’s still alive) though I understand that Georgia Moffet is off having…the Doctor’s daughter (I had to.)

Day Eight: Favorite female character in a comedy show
Day Nine: Favorite female character in a drama show
Day Ten: Favorite female character in a scifi/supernatural show
Day Eleven: Favorite female character in a children’s show
Day Twelve: Favorite female character in a movie
Day Thirteen: Favorite female character in a book
Day Fourteen: Favorite older female character
Day Fifteen: Favorite female character growth arc
Day Sixteen: Favorite mother character
Day Seventeen: Favorite warrior female character
Day Eighteen: Favorite non-warrior female character
Day Nineteen: Favorite non-human female character
Day Twenty: Favorite female antagonist
Day Twenty-One: Favorite female character screwed over by canon
Day Twenty-Two: Favorite female character you love but everyone else hates
Day Twenty-Three: Favorite female platonic relationship
Day Twenty-Four: Favorite female romantic relationship
Day Twenty-Five: Favorite mother/daughter and/or sister relationship
Day Twenty-Six: Favorite classical female character (from pre-20th century literature or mythology or the like)-
Day Twenty-Seven: A female character you have extensive personal canon for
Day Twenty-Eight: Favorite female writer (television, books, movies, etc.)
Day Twenty-Nine: Favorite group of ladies
Day Thirty: Whatever you’d like!